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The Spiritual Imperative: Sex, Age, and Caste Move the Future by Lawrence H. Taub Publisher Comments Copernicus and Galileo's sun-centered model of the solar system gave us our view of space. Newton and Einstein's mechanical and electromagnetic models of the universe gave us our view of nature. Can the human condition be captured with a similarly... (read more) Your price: $31.95 New - Hardcover 
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Between Security and Insecurity by Ivan Klima Synopsis A discussion of the changes in thinking and behaviour at the turn of the millennium. It considers the main values in human society that must be preserved and tries to identify the people who are seeking to transform consumer values into genuine values... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $2.98 Used - Trade Paper
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Forecasting: An Appraisal for Policy-Makers and Planners by William Ascher Publisher Comments Energy needs...oil supplies...inflation rates...the demand for new homes...in concerns like these, forecasting plays a crucial role. Forecasts not only determine how billions of dollars will be spent by also commit national policies far into the future... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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As the Future Catches You: How Genomics & Other Forces Are Changing Your Life, Work, Health & Wealth by Juan Enriquez Publisher Comments If you think the world has changed dramatically in the last five years, you havent seen anything yet. You will never look at the world in the same way after reading As the Future Catches You. Juan Enriquez puts you face to face with unprecedented... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Apocalypse Pretty Soon: Travels in End-Time America by Alex Heard Publisher Comments The inspired madness of America's apocalyptic and pre-millennial organizations may have reached a fever pitch with the turn of the twenty-first century, but intrepid cultural traveler Alex Heard spent a ten-year period witnessing the crescendo firsthand.&... (read more) Your price: $19.00 New - Trade Paper
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Future Imperfect: The Mixed Blessings of Technology in America by Howard P. Segal Publisher Comments The repeated failure of technology to fulfill its utopian promise has in recent years created disillusionment with the very idea of progress. Indeed, if technological optimism has characterized modernity, then technological pessimism may become the... (read more) List Price $19.96 Your price: $17.71 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Exploring and Shaping International Futures by Barry B. Hughes Publisher Comments What will be the long-term impact of AIDS in Africa or concentration of global oil production in the Middle East? Exploring and Shaping International Futures helps readers understand such global trends in demographic, economic, energy, food... (read more) Your price: $51.25 New - Trade Paper
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Vision, 2020: Reordering Chaos for Global Survival by Ervin Laszlo Publisher Comments The vision of the year 2020 Laszlo sketches is not a science fiction account of a technological utopia, nor is it the doomsday world pictured by pessimists. Laszlo argues for a holistic approach to education, the environment, and political economic... (read more) Your price: $38.95 New - Trade Paper
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Future Factor: Forces Transforming Human Destiny (04 Edition) by Michael G. Zey Publisher Comments The Future Factor offers an inspiring, optimistic view of the human future. Sociologist Michael G. Zey shows how breathtaking innovations in fields such as biotechnology, computing, robotics, medicine, energy development and space technology are... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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With Oil in Their Lamps: Faith, Feminism, and the Future by Sandra Marie Schneiders Publisher Comments "I am going to suggest that the culminating contribution of the second millennium, the defining characteristic of the twentieth century, and the most important source of energy for the immediate future is the emergence of women, the beginning of the... (read more) List Price $5.97 Your price: $5.30 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Post Industrial Lives: Roles and Relationships in the 21st Century by Jerald Hage Publisher Comments The move from an industrial to a post-industrial society has been documented by many, as has the impact of this new order on the macro-level institutions of society - government, the workplace and the economy. But what does post-industrial life mean to... (read more) Your price: $80.50 New - Trade Paper
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A Voice of Reason: Reflections on Australia by Ian Lowe Publisher Comments Bringing to light seriousworld environment issues, this thought-provoking and informative collection of essays and opinion pieces illustrates the topics?from politics and economics toculture and health?that have engaged the Australian community and will... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $24.84 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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The New Superpower by James Hilgendorf Synopsis Hilgendorf takes on Hiroshima, the bomb, quantum physics, Buddhism, the beginning and end of time, and the intent of the universe in this work.... (read more) Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
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What the Future Holds: Insights from Social Science by Richard Cooper Publisher Comments Predicting the future is notoriously difficult. But systematic analysis leads to clearer understanding and wiser decisions. Thinking about the future also makes social scientists focus their research into the past and present more fruitfully, with more... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Meaning of the 21st Century: A Vital Blueprint for Ensuring Our Future by James Martin Publisher Comments A renowned expert on the social and economic impact of technology and author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated The Wireless Society explains how fast-developing technologies, broadening gaps between economic classes, and global extremism are posing... (read more) Your price: $12.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Manufacturing Green Prosperity: The Power to Rebuild the American Middle Class (New Trends and Ideas in American Politics) by Jon Rynn Publisher Comments Manufacturing Green Prosperity: The Power to Rebuild the American Middle Class connects two critical issues: the importance of manufacturing to the growth and fair distribution of national wealth and the need to create an environmentally sustainable... (read more) Your price: $56.95 New - Hardcover
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The Next Century by David Halberstam Publisher Comments Drawing on his experience as a correspondent for The New York Times in Europe and Vietnam, David Halberstam takes a moment to reflect on the recent past, the astonishing events now taking place in the world, and the look of the next century.... (read more) List Price $8.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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History of the Future: The Shape of the World to Come Is Visible Today by Max Singer Publisher Comments History of the Future presents a set of ideas about where we are in history. It focuses on the great majority of people in each society, and shows that life in the modern world will be almost completely different from all previous human experience. The... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Contemporary Futurist Thought : Science Fiction Future Studies and Theories and Visions of the Future in the Last Century (06 Edition) by thomas Lombardo Publisher Comments Contemporary Futurist Thought describes recent thinking about the future, dealing with both the hopes and the fears expressed in modern times concerning what potentially lies ahead. There are many such hopes and fears - perhaps an overpowering number... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Visions of the Future: The Distant Past, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow by Robert Heilbroner Publisher Comments "This is an exceedingly long short book, stretching at least fifty thousand years into the past and who knows how many into the future." So begins Visions of the Future, the prophetic new book by eminent economist Robert Heilbroner. Heilbroner's basic... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Mass Market
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